“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

dissatisfied with your existence, you

 

The mood was strange.

 

were seriously fighting, but they couldn’t take

 

any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the

 

almost chest to chest

 

must be my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied

 

It just came out like that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a hell of a lot

 

here, then? Hurry up

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

as if there was still space left between them. “Visit her tomorrow and

 

if you don’t participate in

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to her. There

 

twice her size, but

 

these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the man and woman’s

 

and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on

 

Sad and hopeless and wretched all at the

 

woman’s eyes turned to

 

have seen me. I was only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone

 

woman smiled at me—a meaningless,

 

in my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

it was as if someone had turned

 

room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this empty

 

***

 

my eyes had me twitching, trying to

 

the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed I was lying on like

 

am I? Who got me here? What happened at

 

through the broken fragments of my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of

 

I wanted to cry.

 

to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words coming from

 

him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater than anything else

 

almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t you tell

 

of anything. It felt like it didn’t

 

in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie

 

felt like a stranger in my own body thinking about

 

voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper I breathed

 

“What…?”

 

All I was, was

 

something that had revealed itself to

 

they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name like he had

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people

 

a situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I

 

gently at first until I pressed hard on the

 

on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted look in his

 

was free, he could embrace me fully, enveloping me in

 

instead, putting my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the

 

understand why my head felt

 

but I didn’t

 

that. Because it’s not your

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant man, I

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